The iconic Arashiyama Bamboo Forest in Kyoto is one of the most beautiful and serene places we visited during our travels through Japan. Take a nice walk and enjoy the sounds from the big bamboo trees

Short quotes about bamboo


Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. Steve Lacy

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. Derek Walcott

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. Bruce Lee

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. Elliott Smith

“Better to have a meal without meat than a house without bamboo.”

“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.” Japanese Proverb

“From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.”

“Be like bamboo. The higher you grow, the deeper you bow.”

“Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.”

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army. Sadao Araki

Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. Tao Te Ching

I am the wind dancing with the bamboo flute Soen Nakagawa

One day, you’ll look back and see that all along you were growing. Ask the bamboo. Jedidah Moses


Music
Title : Doug Maxwell
Artist : Lau Tzu Ehru